Basic Homemade Bread Recipe

Modified from Taste of Home
Ingredients:
1 package of dry yeast

2 cups warm water

3 eggs
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
6 - 6 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 stick melted butter

Mix the ingredients in a mixer, very slowly using the dough hook.  Add melted butter last, coating the ball of dough.  Set aside to warm and rise.  Then, punch down and divide into two bread loaves.

Butterscotch Banana Bread

4 ripe bananas
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tblsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
Pinch salt
1 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1 cup butterscotch morsels

Gingerbread Cookies

3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup molasses
4 cups flour
1 tsp. Ginger
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp. salt

Crunchy on the outside and Soft on the inside! BISCUITS!

Today, I was not able to access the internet and found an old cookbook that I used when I first got married.  Thankfully, I used it as a guide to make a biscuit that was crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside - for my husband's preference!  He loved it and went back for seconds!  That is a compliment to me.

Ingredients:

Sift together

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. Kosher salt
• 1 Tblsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1Tblsp. sugar                                                                                                                        

Cut in 1/3 cup Crisco
 Add 3/4 cups of buttermilk and then some!

Melt butter in an iron skillet and place biscuits in a row, covering them on both sides with the butter.
Bake at 400 degrees until brown on top - delicious!

Enchilada sauce

Ingredients:
Olive oil in sauce pan
Dice a bunch of green onions
Dice a yellow onion
Dice 2 cloves of garlic
1 tblsp. coriander
1 tblsp. cumin
1 tblsp. Chili powder
Dice 5 Roma tomatoes
Dice 2 vine ripened tomatoes
2 small cans of tomato sauce
1 can of stewed tomatoes
2 chipotle chiles and 2 tblsp. Chipotle sauce
2 tblsp. Butter
Might add 2 tblsp. Mole

Simmer all day until the tomatoes disappear!

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter creamed
4 eggs
1 can of pumpkin
3 1/2 cups flour (self rising)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
3 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup molasses
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sour cream

Mix ingredients and bake!  Makes 2 loaves and 9 muffins!

Teenager Time

Time to listen to big bodies with big hearts and big ideas and big mission statements.....
And, to provide big breakfasts at 4:00 in the morning hoping for a hug and a chance to let that teenager know about love meeting needs.  ....needs for prayer, a warm clean bed, a safe and loving home to retreat to, and a God who always accepts and loves.  My Mom heart is so big for a teenager son and daughter right now.  Some of us are teenagers for a long time.